I Hate Porting Heads!!

805moparkid said
yea helps alot tho with a 7TH GEAR!!

as far as the weight goes i took out the carpet. im looking at getting a glass hood and trunk lid. then do frame connectors with tube front end. should be pretty light!

Yeah, having 7 gears on the autobahn helps. :-D

Dart-swinger said
I always used a full face shield it seemed to help.

Also I use a big electric grinder turns around 26,000 rpm,used to spit out carbide bits and burn up sandpaper rolls.

Bought a switch that has a variable output and slowed the beast down,speed isn't always your friend when grinding

This is the last set of aluminum heads I did,have also done quite a few sets of cast iron so I know about the metal taste in you mouth

I'm thinking about getting one of those myself. Electric I think think is the way to go. I was tasting metal for about a day.

fishy68 said
I know where your coming from Joe. It's exciting the first half hour because you know what the gains will get you but then the work reality sets in. I use a paint respirator to keep the crap out of my nose.

BTW: You need to polish them chambers too. Keeps down the detonation. It won't take long. I promise. LOL

A couple of yrs. back a buddy didn't have any money and wanted me to do a set of 454 heads for him for free. I looked and him and said do you realize how much work that is? He comes back with "it can't be that bad is it?" So I told him bring them over and I'd set him up with the tools and show him what to do. I kept an eye on him to make sure he was doing it right and he did real good but of course after about 2 chambers were done he realized it is very time consuming, and dirty work. He learned a new respect that day I believe.

BTW: I just bought one of the Milwaukee electric die grinders and it sure is a nice step up from the air grinder. No more fighting with the air hose. No more frozen hands in the winter. It weighs quite a bit more than a little air grinder but you get used to it and I find the extra weight helps steady it. You know how sometimes the bits will bounce. I've even broken long bits with little air grinders cause they bounced on me. At $15 a bit that ads up fast.

Guys who do this for a living earn every penny, no doubt.

496dart said
I learned this from a fellow mopar guy- when grinding Aluminum, dip the bit in a bar of soap every 20-30 seconds--that way the bit wont clog up

Good idea!

darndart said
Eastwood has a cool thing called grinders grease that works equally well with carbide or sandpaper rolls. It keeps them from clogging up and helps keep them cool also.

Another one!

turbodart68 said
I used to use air powered tools but I started using this Makita on a variable switch. Now I have non of the symptoms you speak of.

I'm going to look for one of these soon.

SpeedThrills said
I used to grind cast iron when I worked at an automotive stamping die plant. A tracing/milling machine would rough out the shape of the fender, hood, whatever, from a model, then we would grind, grind, grind and, oh yeah, grind some more, for weeks. That work is done by cnc now. I would clean up and shower, by the time I got home from work, my hands were dirty again. It came out of your pores. It was in my ears, nose, everywhere. You couldn't keep it out. Really fun in the summer. Now, I rust like the tin man when I'm out in the rain! I don't miss that one bit!!!

You'll never have to take your "1aday with Iron" now. :-D

Dart-swinger said
That looks alot like my switch I bought for my sears grinder,I think I bought mine at Grainger.

Keeps the sandpaper rolls from melting and coming apart and the carbide bits from spitting out and biting me

I'll check out the local Grainger.